FOUR-nEAKDED ROCKLINO. 



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SUIiBRACniAL 

 MALACOPTERVGII. 



GADIDJE. 



THE FOUR-BEARDED ROCKLING. 



Motella cimbria, The Four-bearded Ruckling, Parnei.l, Wcrn. Mem. vol. vii. 



p. 449. pi. 44. 

 Gadiis cimbrius, Linn.v.us, Syst. Nat. p. 440, sp. 16. 



,, ,, Reiz, Faun. Suec. p. 323. 



Enchelyopns cimbricns, SciiNEioEn, Syst. Ichtli. p. 50, sp. 1, tab. 9. 

 Motella cimbrica, Nii-sson, Prod. Ichth. Scand. p. 48, sp. 2. 



This species of Motella, first described by Linnocus, is 

 included b^' Dr. Parnell in his description of the Fishes of 

 the Forth, a specimen, fourteen inches in length, having 

 been brought to him by a Newhaven fisherman, who had 

 caught it a little to the east of Inchheith on a Haddock lino 

 baited with muscles. It is a species perfectly distinct from 

 the Three or the Fivc-beardcd Rocklings, so much more 

 common on various parts of the coast, and may at once be 

 distinguished from cither by the greater length of the fila- 

 ment, which is placed in advance of the almost obsolete 

 first dorsal fin. This filament in a fish of nine inches 

 long, measures one inch and seven-eighths ; and in another 

 fish of ten inches and a half in length, measures two inches 

 and a quarter, as I find from portions of two specimens 



